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Anthropic recently shocked Cursor by suddenly raising its prices. Researcher Anjali Shrivavastava argued that this wasn't price gouging, but a clue to a fundamental economic issue with token pricing. Join us tomorrow morning at 8 am PT to talk about her research. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...

No matter how intelligent the AI powering the chatbot might be, it has to be integrated with the systems and the workflow of the organization that deploys it. And you can’t build a new skyscraper on a crumbling foundation.

AI Integration Is the New Moat The electrical system warning light had gone on in my Kona EV over the weekend, and all the manual said was to take it to the dealer for evaluation. I first

I had a great interaction with a customer service chatbot last week, and yet the customer service itself was no better. That left me thinking about why that was, and why making the AI better isn't the answer.

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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Technologist Sam Newman How should infrastructure evolve for AI workloads?

About to go live with Sam Newman, talking about the new economics of AI, how AI changes software architecture, and much more. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Docs Founders Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter Lessons from the past on seeing—and creating—the future

About to start Live with Tim O'Reilly, talking with the creators of Google Docs, about what their experience might teach us about rethinking UI for AI. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...

We Are Only Beginning to Understand How to Use AI Lessons from Google Docs and Other Internet Innovations

It's the 20th anniversary of the launch of Writely, which became Google Docs. Next Tuesday I'll be chatting with Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, the founders of Writely, on what the leap they made might teach us about leaps ahead for AI. Join us!
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Is AI a "Normal Technology"? We think we see the world as it is, but in fact we see it through a thick fog of received knowledge and ideas, some of which are right and some of which are

And here are my takeaways from that conversation: www.oreilly.com/radar/is-ai-...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan Is AI unprecedented, or is it a “normal technology”?

Tomorrow, on Live with Tim O'Reilly, I'll be talking with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton about his notion that AI is a "normal technology" rather than the beginning of an unprecedented singularity.
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Factories in Space Space economy - Making products for Earth and space

Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier

"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...

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Bet on or Against the Unicorns Also the meme-stock revival, home insurance and tokenized crypto treasury companies.

Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be facing a pigovian tax. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Reading Abundance from China I organized a Chinese-language reading group for Abundance and we examined Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's ideals through the lens of China

Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-ab...

Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve? A Conversation with ChatGPT and Gemini About Job Losses from AI

Whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation cycle. This thought led me down a rabbit hole of talking with ChatGPT and Gemini about AI and enshittification.

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"More Slowly" Human Deep Learning in the Face of AI

And here's my own intro to the show that I reference above: www.oreilly.com/radar/more-s...

How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI Sunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downs…

Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.

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Fast moving innovation gives the lie to the idea that AI will put programmers out of work. There's more to learn and do and create than ever. Send in your proposals!

Coding for the Future Agentic World

The @oreillymedia May online conference on the future of coding with AI was a huge success, so Addy Osmani and I are doing it again on September 9, with a focus on coding for agentic AI. www.oreilly.com/radar/coding...

Where do you get that idea? There is no such plan. Everything we do is designed to continue to compensate authors.

Chelsea's courses through the O'Reilly platform include Fundamentals of Technical Debt, Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Software Engineers, and Leveraging LLMs in Software Engineering. learning.oreilly.com/search/?q=ch...

Chelsea is absolutely the best at saying "wait a minute" and cutting through the hype on all things AI. We'll be talking tomorrow morning, June 18, at 8 am Pacific. We'll be taking questions from the audience starting approximately halfway through the one-hour event. I hope to see you tomorrow!

Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O’Reilly AI and developer productivity, how AI changes the job, and more

The second guest on my new show Live with Tim O'Reilly is the inimitable Chelsea Troy, who leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, teaches computer science at the University of Chicago, and through the O'Reilly platform.

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Building Secure Code in the Age of Vibe Coding: Steve Wilson Live with Tim O’Reilly Navigate the security minefield of AI-assisted development—before it’s too late

Really looking forward to chatting with Steve Wilson today at 11am ET/8am PT. Steve is both incredibly excited about the possibilities of AI but also deeply concerned about the new vulnerabilities and attack surfaces it opens up. Let's hear what to do about it.

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No, it means doing more, using humans augmented with AI to solve problems that were previously impossible, in ways that were previously unthinkable, and in ways that make our machine systems more attuned to the humans they are meant to serve.

The problems of integrating AI into our businesses, our lives, and our society are indeed complicated. But whether you call it “AI native” or “AI first,” it does not mean embracing the cult of “economic efficiency” that reduces humans to a cost to be eliminated.

AI First Puts Humans First

My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically.

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I'm really looking forward to this. Steve has some very spicy things to say about the security or lack thereof of the leading AI models and applications built around them. I'm looking forward to having him get very specific about his concerns.

The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍

From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.

🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.

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Media isn't dead. It's on Substack

So many ads try to persuade the gullible of things that are false or overblown. A great ad says something that those in the know immediately recognize as true, and that others haven't yet discovered or thought about. This is a great ad. Kudos to Substack and its ad agency.

Some money quotes illustrating the range of perspectives: @kentbeck.com - "it reawakened the joy of programming," Chelsea Troy - "On relatively simple problems, we can get away with outsourcing some of our judgment. As the problems become more complicated, we can't."

Takeaways from Coding with AI

Last week, we held our first AI CodeCon, a four hour deep dive into the pros and cons of coding with AI, as well as people sharing their AI coding workflows and favorite tools. Here are some of my takeaways, www.oreilly.com/radar/takeaw...

BM7 index vs S&P after Deepseek announcement

Eye-popping graph from Adam Tooze confirms what we all knew: "Trump tariff uncertainty has been bad for US equity markets, but for the Mag7 the break came with DeepSeek." The AI investment boom turned into a bubble overnight as soon as DeepSeek demolished the promise of monopoly profits for AI.